by Petra Kocar

1. Christmas crafts From Slovenia
Make a
Christmas greeting card
What you need:
o Scissors,
o A glue,
o Paper; white harder paper
for greeting card, peaces of
green and red paper,
o White finger colour
o Pictures of children
o Clothes-rack

2. Procedure:
o Cut out a Christmas tree shape out of
green paper
o Let children decorate it; stamp Christmas
balls on with fingers and white colour
o Let the decorated Christmas tree dry and
than cut out round shapes of children’s
faces out of their pictures and put one
round shape on each Christmas tree
o Fold white paper on half so you get a
greeting card shape
o Glue red paper rectangle shape on left side
of the front side of the card and than glue
decorated Christmas tree on. You can
additionally decorated the card with
peaces of shiny strings, you can put golden
star on top of the tree or draw it with gold
pen!
o Put your text with wishes inside the card!
o Glue clothes-rack on the back of the card
so your friends can put your greeting on
their Christmas tree!
o Have lots of fun!

3. Make a Christmas candlestick decoration
that you can use for your Christmas table decoration.
What you need:
o Old CD roms, scissors, glue, white
and green paper, clay, tea candles,
models for baking cookies
Procedure:
o Make a star shape out of the clay
and make a round hole in the
middle of it in the size of your
candle (we used tea candles); for
making clay shapes you can use
models for baking cookies.
o Let the clay get dray and colour it
with shiny brown or red colour and
let it dry again.
o Glue the clay shape on the CD rom
as you can see on the picture and
put the candle into the clay shape.
You can decorate the rest of the
CD rom with star and holly shapes
you can cut out of the paper.

4. Some useful shapes for Christmas decorations and crafts
Tree shape
star shapes
bell shape
Ornament shape stocking shape